The offering in English is designed to foster good writing, effective speaking, and heightened understanding of culturally significant texts.  We encourage students majoring in English to develop their responsiveness to the literary imagination and their sensitivity to literary form through disciplined attention to language, historical contexts, and to critical and scholarly methods.

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Page last updated 2/4/10

ENGL BC 3149: Cultures of Colonialism is canceled for this spring. For more information, please visit our course announcement page.

You don't need to be an English major to submit your work for the English Department prizes for Barnard Students.  The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 15th at 4 p.m.  Click for details.

Copies of the SALMAGUNDI special issue on Margarethe Von Trotta (which contain a DVD of her recent feature film) are still available for purchase at the English Department office (417 Barnard Hall).